An economy leveraged 150:1 A spiraling tower of debts to pay for our previous debts Central Banks repeating the same policies that caused our problems as their solutions The confiscation through counterfeit of $Trillions in economic production Massive distortions of the price mechanism & monetary authorities who argue over not whether they should, but by…

To think of the value of a global, jurisdiction-less, “money-for-enemies” network as nothing more than the result of how many transactions it can do on the base layer, is to miss the point entirely.  The difference between the payments systems and settlement systems of the world, their degree of assurances, and the desirable characteristics of…

INTRODUCTION At the end of the 16th century, a rag tag group of rebel intellectuals and entrepreneurs founded a country on some of the least desirable land in Europe—so often flooded that it needed hundreds of miles of moats – while fighting an eighty year long war against the largest empire in the world. From…

The World Has Gone Mad, & the System is Broken. Ray Dalio drops a bomb recently with his post showing the sorry state of our money, the cracks in our world monetary system, and the coming paradigm shift.  A short piece that requires much ranting, don’t miss it. Link to the original post and Ray…

The 5th installment of the always fascinating “Gradually, then Suddenly” series from Parker Lewis and Unchained Capital.  What is the real problem that Bitcoin solves, and how does it compare to the alternatives? Are mass payments an impossible problem, and isn’t Bitcoin too slow to be global money?  This piece is packed with digital gold,…